From luke.hutch at gmail.com Fri Mar 27 05:49:14 2009 From: luke.hutch at gmail.com (Luke Hutchison) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:49:14 -0400 Subject: Pausing plugins when not visible? Message-ID: <3a0a97520903262249y682b6c8alf1ea138959a8de07@mail.gmail.com> Adobe Flash Player for Linux is unbearably slow once you have a lot of windows open containing Flash content, to the point that Firefox can become almost unusable. Using nspluginwrapper seems to help a bit (because it runs the plugins in separate processes?) but is not a complete cure as the CPU is still pegged. As an example, try opening several content-heavy myspace pages at once in different tabs. Is it possible to add a setting to nspluginwrapper that will simply freeze plugins whenever their display area is not visible on screen? That would obviously cause some sites that you want to have running in the background, like pandora.com, to stop working -- but maybe there could be a whitelist of these? This would be a strong reason for many people to start using nspluginwrapper, as the Web is replete with complaints of slow Flash performance under Linux. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: